Say it, don’t spray it

•If you’re average, over the course of your lifetime your mouth will produce about 10,000 gallons of saliva.

•Finley Peter Dunne was a journalist and humorist — and an apt student of human nature, evidently. He’s the one who made the following sage observation: “Trust everybody, but cut the cards.”

•Those who are among the ranks of the “single and searching” will want to take note of the results of a recent survey of those on the dating scene. When asked what they considered to be the worst topics of conversation on a date, 46 percent of respondents cited past relationships. At 21 percent, dieting or body image was the second-ranked conversation killer. Marriage and politics tied for third place, each receiving 15 percent of the vote.

•I hope you are not among the unfortunate people who know this from experience, but a human can detect the smell of a skunk from a mile away.

•Researchers have found that toddlers are surprisingly strong, especially in their leg muscles. Stronger even than oxen, they say, on a pound-for-pound basis.